Tuesday, January 9, 2018

Still Life Weather Continues

1/5/18

Despite
how many I make, sketching still lives is not my favorite thing. Apples and
avocadoes are not particularly challenging to draw, so I don’t do them for
drawing practice, but they are very
challenging for practicing form, color and light. (They could make good
compositional practice, too, if I ever stacked more than a couple of apples at
a time.)

Sometimes
I like to sketch the same piece of produce twice – once in color; once in
graphite – because I learn different things when I have color and when I don’t.
I find shiny fruit easier for conveying form because I can rely on the bright
highlight to do a lot of the work. The avocado with its dull, bumpy skin was
much harder.

1/7/18

Sometimes
I just crave using bright colors, and the gray winter landscape just isn’t
doing it for me, so a tomato and a banana keep me happy. Mostly, though, still
lives entertain me when it’s too wet to play outside.